Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of months ago, President Derek Bok and McLaughlin were engaged in deep conversation at a reception for Friends of Harvard Basketball. McLaughlin apologized for losing to Bok's alma mater (Stanford, 103-81). Bok, in the ineffable style that has become his trademark, just smiled and said essentially nothing of consequence...
...that a few numbers and performers always stick out. Three women--Judy Banks, Tangee Griffin, and Sherri Hays--each had show-stealing songs. Banks's "Love You Madly" used a great bit of stage business, bringing the entire cast out from under a giant envelope onstage, but Banks's deep-chested, poignant singing elevated the song from cuteness. Griffin made "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" the model of a torch song, alone on stage with nothing but a non-functional microphone, a spotlight and her voice--but that was enough. Hays deserves the garland...
...known as the San Luis Drain already exists in the valley. The study suggests using it as the basis of an even larger network. Underground drain pipes would carry salty water from individual farms to larger collection drains, which in turn would link up to a main 10-ft.-deep concrete viaduct. From its starting point, near Bakersfield, the viaduct would convey the salty water 290 miles away to Suisun...
...more seriously, the second act, when the women reappear as 23-year-olds, suffers as Ravenal tries to force more deep meanings than the revue format can sustain. Throughout the first act each character never has to be an individual. But in the second act, each woman suffers a major, almost debilitating collapse of some kind or other which is necessary to complete Ravenal's revue of women's experience. The life crisis that all the actresses suffer, however, could only be believable if complicated people were suffering them. And surely one woman out of five might have emerged from...
...most part the deep confessions--Reed's admission that swinging might not be all that it's cracked up to be, Rody's bizarre comments on her inability to make commitments--all ring false. When each character comes before us and claims that she has been totalled in some very personal way we come up against the bottom line that the people in this show are not people but classes of people. Their crises are simply too individual (devastatingly so) to work, and when sung, they sound like trite attempts to seem meaningful...